I love the look of foil, but haven’t pulled out my Glimmer machine as often as I’d like. With the new Yay You release from Simon Says Stamp having a wonderful selection of foiling options, I got my self set up and had a play. I used the smooth 130lb white card from Simon to get lovely clean foiled results, but then when I wanted to pair the butterfly I chose with a background I had, I switched to foiling on watercolour card. You don’t get as clean a result, but it fits with my style more.
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all on one card!
Having, a beautiful foiled butterfly, I die cut with the matching die and then started playing around with other things on my desk. I found a background I’d made when making this card – it uses the Soft Plaid Background stamped with watercolours and lots of water and splatter too.
The foiling plates are great for foiling as you’d expect LOL but they are also great for dry embossing. I ran the Intricate Floral Background plate through with an embossing sandwich and watercolour card. You get a lovely deeply etched impression of the plate. I cut a piece of this along with a slither of Gold Mirror card and then started playing around with possible arrangements.
I decided on a focal point top left of the card and to emphasise this and bring in more interest I used the Arches stencil and some Opaque Matte Texture Paste to give an extra layer of dimension and draw the eye to the butterfly.
Here, you can see the light catching the foil and showing off the dry embossed flower layer too. I put everything together on a Desert Storm card base with foam adhesive popping each layer up.
I finished off with a few gold sequins and white enamel dots.
Just look at that shine and dimension too! I can see my foiling machine staying on my desk from now on.
For the greeting, I picked a sentiment from the Reverse Wedding Sentiment Strips set, trimmed it out popped it on top with more foam tape.
more inspiration
Here’s a card I shared the other day using the cute Strawbeary set which is also in the Yay You release.
blog hop
As mentioned above, to celebrate the Yay You release from Simon Says Stamp, this post is part of a blog hop. Hopefully, you’ve arrived here from Laura’s blog but if not then a good place to start is Simon’s blog. As with all good hops, there are offers and giveaways.
- Use code BEAUTY to get the Beautiful die set FREE with purchase of $25 or more! This promotion will expire 5/15 at 11:59 pm EDT.
- Simon is giving away a $25 coupon from comments left on each stop of the hop. Winners will be announced on the Simon blog on 18th May.
Now it is time to hop on over to Jennifer’s blog. Here’s the full hop list to keep you on track.
supplies
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Amazing! you are so very creative!
Such a pretty card with a great colour combo! Thanks for the inspiration Debby!
So beautiful
Nice project shares. Great textures and layers. I like the color mix and use of gold.
Beautiful card!! Thank you for the inspiration!
Look at the watercolor bear! You did an incredible job on that-well done!
wow, so beautiful, I love your design.
What a gorgeous design Debby, the foiling is really lovely on this and looks fab on the watercolour paper. Have a beautiful day, Wends xoxo